HIGH LIFE
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of 0. Henry
VOLUME XXXI
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., MARCH 11, 1955
NUMBER 10
Senior High To Be Host
To City’s Music Contest
Shown above are the four girls who will be very much in evidence when the Greensboro High May
Court of 1955 makes its formal appearance. In the middle, surrounded by the other beauties, is , the
Queen herself, Juliana Clark. With her are the maids of honor from each of toe three classes: Jane Lynch.
Anne Poole, and Josie Ward, from the Sophomore, Junior, and Senior classes respectively. In the
background is the picture of last year’s May Court. y
Clark Chosen To Be Queen Of May;
Ward, Poole, Lynch, Maids Of Honor
Juliana Clark, senior, was elected last Friday by the GHS student body to reign as the
Queen of the 1955 May Court.
Chosen to represent their respective classes as maids of honor are Josie Ward, Senior
Class, to be escorted by Charlie Quinn; Ann Poole, Junior Class, to be escorted by Nelson
Sloane; and Jane Lynch, Sophomore Class, to be escorted by Dick Robinson.
Senior Class attendants to Queen j Senior girls selected to compete
Juliana and their escorts include tor May. Court attendants were
Eita Boggs with Alan Pultz, Terry Sylvia Boggan, Rita Boggs, Lynn
Garrison with Bob Grant, Susan' Boren, Margie Boren, Martha
Hege with Bill Mauldin, Pat Leary Phyllis Brooks, Ann Bryant,
Honor Society Holds
forchlight Induction
Twenty-three students were
tapped into Torchlight National
Honor Society at the annual spring
induction in the school auritrium
Tuesday, March 8.
Seniors who were tapped on the
basis of leadership, scholarship,
character, and service included
Rachel Allen, Steve Arthur, Mary
Anne Boone, Barbara Callisher,
Barbara Flynn, Pat Frazier, Hel
ena Frost, ' Ann Fry, Michael
Hayes, Freddy Hutton, Pat Leary,
Jerry Malther5y, Ed Morrissett,
Vivian Morgan, Bill Simpson, Dave
Tucker, and D. Ann Welch.
The six juniors selected for
membership were Liza Anderson,
Leon Boggs, John Gardiner, Gail
1 Kii'kman, and Janie Walters.
I Following the procession of the
I old members to the stage, Julie
Redhead, president, depicted the
I purposes of Torchlight.
Four veterans of the society
then presented speeche.s eplain-
'.'-U rbe foi-“ cn which
members aiC chosen for the organ-
izaiioji. '
Bob Cowan :>poKe on scholnr-
ship. repreS'jnlod by the color
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Orchestra, Band
To Play Together
On Thursday, March 17, the
band and orchestra will give a
joint concert in the high schooi
auditorium.
For their part in the program
the band wiii play “The Impre
sario” an overture by Mozart, “Fi
nale” from “Symphony in F Minor"
by Peter Iban Tschaikowski, “The
Irish Washerwoman" by Leroy An
derson, “The Rakes of Mallow” by
Anderson, “The Girl I Left Be
hind Me”, by Anderson, and “Am-
parito Roca” a Spanish march by
Jaime Texidor, Miss Margaret
Pritchett, a former student here,
will play a solo, “Concerto for
Oboe and Strings” by Corelli. She
transcribes this piece for the band
•in the form of a concerto for oboe
and clarinets.
The orchestra selections for the
concert will be “Barber of Seville ’,
an overture by Rossini, “Pastorale”
and “Intermezzo” from L’Artesi-
enne Suite No. 2 by Bizet, “Ber
ceuse” from tie Fier Bird Suite
by Stravinsky and “South Pacific,”
and “Shrimp Choir” iSymphonies
Scenario) by Rogers, arranged by
Bennett. Also on Friday, March
10, the orchestra will travel to
Boone, N. C,, to present a music
series at the Appalachian State
Teachers’ College
Seniors Order Invites
With March 3 as the last
day to place graduation invi
tation orders, the Senior Class
of approximately 455 mem-
hers ordered 11,429 invitations.
This number means that
each of the Senior students
sent for an average of about
25. At eight cepts apiece the
class spent $914.32 or $2 per
pupil. Orders ranged from
zero to 100.
with Frank Jones, Sue Simmons
with Charles Woods, and Kay
Wrenn with Brokie Lineweaver.
Peggy Durham, Madeline Holley,
Joan Moring, Bobbie Jean Wil
liams are the attendants selected
from the Junior Class. Their re
spective escorts are Giles Bristow,
Tony Schiffman, Wayne Griffin,
and John Jester.
May Court attendants elected
from the Sophomore Class are
Rosemary Furlong, accompanied
by Fred Hitchcock, Nancy Lam
beth by Dickie Lambeth; Libby
Smathers, by Louis Glascock, and
Harriet Wells, by Bill O’Brien.
Next week the student body will
vote whether the May Court will
make its presentation at the Jun
ior-Senior J*rom or at a May Day
on the front lawn. The Student
Council brought before the stu
dents in early January the possi
bility of eliminating the annual
May Day festivities because of the
lack of co-operation from the stu
dents.
Each sophomore and junior homo
room elected three girls for com
petition for members of the Court.
From this list the girl receiving
the highest number of votes in the
respective classes was automatical
ly the maid of honor. The next
four highest were the attendants
to the Queen.
Each senior home room chose
four girls from which a list was
compiled, the eight receiving the
highest number of votes being
chosen as attendants. From these
eight the entire student body elect
ed the May Queen. 'The girl re
ceiving the second highest num
ber of votes became the Senior
Class maid of honor.
D. LClub Gathering
Elects Jerry Varner
As District President
February 26 and 27 was the
date for the state D. E. Convention
for which 200 club members at
tended.
On Friday morning from 9:00-
10:30, the D. E.’ers were enter
tained by the welcoming commit
tee.
From 10:30-12:00, the various
contests were held. These con
tests consisted of a speech con
test, job application, planning
and laying out individual student
_ . - manual, and club manual. Thp
Sandra Carruthers, Jane Cheek, | club manual is a scrapbook kept
Senior High School will be host
to the Greensboro Music Contest
today and tomorrow. Because the
district has grown so rapidly, it
became necessary to divide it into
two parts — one to be held as
usual in High Point, and the other
here.
Twenty-one vocal groups from
this district will take part in the
program today. The judges for the
vocal events will be E. L. Williams
of Greensboro College, Nancy Sta
ley from High Point, and Richard
Ebert of Raleigh.
Tomorrow Earl Slocum, of
Chapel jHill, Allan Bone of Dur
ham, and William Spencer of
Boone, will judge the instrumental
events. Twelve band and orches
tras will perform.
Miss Eula Tuttle will direct the
mixed chorus, boy’s glee club, and
girls’glee club in the district con
test today. The three music groups
will sing class four music which
is-the most difficult.
The mixed chorus will perform
at 2:45 singing “Last Words of
David,” by Randall Thompson and
“Salvation Is Created” by Lsches
Nokoll. At 2:45 the boys’ glee club
will sing “Come Now, Sweet
Death” by Bach and “I’se Been
List’nin,” a spiritual. “Peace Come
To Me” by Lynn Murray and
“Night Song” by Clokey will' be
sung by the girl’s glee club.
The vocal group will be given
one of the following ratings: su
perior, excellent, good, fair, or
poor. Last year the choir, girls’
glee club and boys’ glee club re
ceived superior ratings.
Other schools which will partici
pate in the vocal events today will
be Reidsville, Guilford, Pleasant
Garden, Altlmahaw-Ossipee, E. M.
Holt, Kernersville, Lindley, Ay-
cock, Gillespie, and Walter Wil
liams in Burlington. The groups
will sing in the auditorium at a
sp'^cified time. Warm-up v/ill be
in room 106 during the 15-min
ute period preceding the perform
ance.
Juliana Clark, Dianna Dickson,
Ann Dumaresq, Jo Ann Ellington,
Ann Fry, Bobbie Garner, Terry
Garrison, Norma Hanner, Edith
Hargrove, Nancy Harris, Susan
Hege, Cynthia Hughes, Phyllis
Jones, Sylvia Kimbro, Barbara
King, Marsha Kreiger, Pat Leary,
Margaret Lucas, Sue McEntire,
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by each D. E. club. For this Con
test, Greensboro D. E.’ers took
third place.
Joanne Plott from Senior High
took second place in the speech
contest.
Later in the afternoon, voting
took place for the national dele
gates. Jerry Varner was elected
from the central district to go to
the national convention in Rich
mond, Virginia, iUer this year.
The election for officers took
place on Saturday morning. The
officers for the coming year are
Jerry Varner of Greensboro, presi
dent; Dickie Mathews of East
Mecklenburg, vice-president; Bar
bara Wagner of High Point, asso
ciate president; Don Odom, secre
tary and treasurer; and Norman
Couch of Durham, editor and pro
motion manager.
There are 900 members in the
D. E. Clubs from 32 high schools
in North Carolina.
Sophomores Put On March Assembly
“I didn’t know that the sopho
mores had any talent!” “Sopho
mores — they really can put on a
show!” These were some of the
compliments made by the aston
ished upper classmen- of the
sophomores when they presented
their annual Sophomore Class
Play on March 3 in. the GHS audi
torium. ^
“Scrapbook Revelations,” a look
into the past, the present, and the
future, was the theme of the play.
The sophomore production was
presented in five acts which dis
played much of the talent pos
sessed by the lower classmen. The
play was directed by Peyton Neal,
and the planning committee chair-
■men were Jack Jessup, Camille
iMerriman, Phil Causey, James
I Spence, and Elizabeth Sutton.
Camille Merriman and Bill
O’Brien, Sophomore Class presi
dent, acted as narrators as they
glanced through the large scrap
book of revelations.
Act I, which was entitled
“We Were,” renewed old memories
of the sophomores when they were
freshmen in junior high school.
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The act included such remem
brances as a hill-billy dance pan-
temine done by Lou Ellen Richey
and Phyllis Steed; Jane Lynch, ac
companied by Nancy Lambeth,
singing “Ah, Sweet Mystery of
Life;” Cole Porter’s “Night and
Day” done as a piano duet by
Carol3m Gibbs and Elwood Hart
man; Anges Tate doing a ballet
step to the melody “Ballet Boggie;”
and Jimmy Powell singinj “Let
Me Go, Lover” while accompaning
himself on his guitar.
Also included in the first act
was a dance band formed by Ed
Wall, Bill Ward, Davis Bowen,
Ronnie Fullington, Sam Cabe, Lee
Cory, Carl Tate, and Cooper Null.
They played “Hearts of Stone,”
“No Other Love Have I,” “Tweedle
Dee,” and “Walking My Baby Back
Home.”
Act II was titled “We Dreamed,”
and included incidents which the
freshmen had imagined would hap
pen at Senior High. “Liz” . Sutton
played the part of the bewildered
sophomore and formed her opin
ion of GHS as she met with Mr.
Routh, Ronnie Parks; a Chaucer-
crazy student, Harriet Wells; two
chafing cats, Sally Bruce and Dale
Whitfield; and a maddening crowd
that nearly swept her off her feet.
Judy Hayes sang “When We
Beco'ne of Age ' between IrvC sec
ond and third acts.
“We Awake” was the title of
Act III which portayed Becky
Ozment as Miss Brown, a voca
tional instructor, who informed a
group of new-comers to GHS about
such activities as College Day.
Elections Day, and ^ocial Stand
ards Day.
We speak, learn, sing, and par
ticipate were the four divisions
in which Act IV was presented
It reenacted typical sophomore
speech, biolo'gy, and choir classes,
with Pete Wyrick, as Coach Jamie
son, presenting the sophomore
athletics.
Act five, titled “We May Be,”
proved much future success for
the sophs. Maranell Pearsall,
playing the part of a fortune teller,
predicted James Spence and Jerry
Mann for the future GHS schol
ars; Fred Barringer, Doug Al
bright, and Lynn Rankin as best
all-round athletes; Harriet Wells
as Miss Charm of 1957; and The
Queen’s Men, Joe Hensley, Clyde
Hunt, Don Marshburn, and Dave
Miller, as( the 1955 Torchlight
Talent Show winners.